Hey, to any high/ish elo player in here, I've seen a lot of GP guides and I've been playing him a lot lately. After seeing plenty of guides and pros play him my question is why do people build pd AND statik instead of choosing one of those alone? With one of those you already have like 1.50 as, isn't it better to buy something like essence reaver so you get ad, cdr and reach 70% crit without any runes? Cause you're not really gonna be basic attacking people to death in tfs as GP isn't too tanky, and it gives your barrels the same crit and more damage.

PD for the passive damage reduction, shiv for the extra mix of damage type, both for movespeed.

GP isn't just crits, but quickly managing a reproc of your passive with proper barrel usage. Relying on a one-shot wonderbarrel would use higher AD for greater return on the crits, but getting the higher attack speed from multiple zeal paths makes your autos faster, meaning it's less likely somebody will last hit your barrels instead of you, and you can do passive proc, auto barrel, passive proc for a lot of true damage, plus the crits, plus the stattik magic crit. Which provides full damage variety in a burst of damage, making it harder to mitigate than if you went for the wonderbarrel.

Mobas aren't something you play to enjoy. You play to win and to feel less shit about yourself.

Wat
I've never played a moba to win, I don't play league yo win either, I mean it's nice to win, but I play to have fun, it pisses me off that half the community try hards at every game type instead of enjoying it.
New game types are hard to enjoy if you don't pick someone with intentions to win. I pick someone who I can have fun with and mess around and have fun, play ranked if you wanna win and have fun winning.

I honestly have no idea what happened to a game being fun and playing them to enjoy playing them, instead of only playing to win, like is that even fun? If you lose you hate it, if you win you like it. The day you learn to have fun whether you win or lose you'll be so much better at it then just playing to win

Wat
I've never played a moba to win, I don't play league yo win either, I mean it's nice to win, but I play to have fun, it pisses me off that half the community try hards at every game type instead of enjoying it.
New game types are hard to enjoy if you don't pick someone with intentions to win. I pick someone who I can have fun with and mess around and have fun, play ranked if you wanna win and have fun winning.

I honestly have no idea what happened to a game being fun and playing them to enjoy playing them, instead of only playing to win, like is that even fun? If you lose you hate it, if you win you like it. The day you learn to have fun whether you win or lose you'll be so much better at it then just playing to win

Am I right or wrong? It's just like any sport

different personalities
some people, including me, are driven by their competitive nature first and foremost, winning is the fun part of the game, when i win, i am happy, i(most of times, with some exceptions) don't find enjoyment in playing the game itself, because i've done the same scenarios a million times where my focus lies in choosing the right decision to proceed, i don't have 'mental space' to have fun, if that makes sense, if your primary focus is to choose your next move accordingly, in order to try your best to win the game, more often than not the enjoyment will come after winning, because you know you tried hard for that win and was rewarded

its basically what you want to do with the game, some people find enjoyment in ranking up, improving and whatnot, and to do that, you have to focus on your mistakes, instead of having fun with what's going on in the game.
or for aspiring pro players such as myself, its basically a requirement to not have fun, since it's a distraction during the game.